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There is no doubt YouTube has revolutionised the web. Thanks to YouTube, video and the web co-exist in seamless harmony.

Businesses are using video to more effectively communicate their offerings. Individuals are using video to better share talents, views and clips of functions. Politicians are using video to take their messages to the monitors. As monitors are where eyes are spending longer than they are on televisions in this information age.

With all these groups competing for online video space, YouTube provides an outlet for all to freely and easily upload, then share their visual product with the widest audience possible. YouTube, owned by Google, can be used by us in many ways. One is a way I did today!

The 'Chk Chk Boom' story is about a girl, Clare Werbeloff delivering an entertaining report at the scene of a crime in Sydney's Kings Cross. Unfortunately, she later revealed she was actually lying, but the power of the web and video sharing means over 1million people had viewed the report before she took back the story.

The following video has since made it to all television news bulletins and current affairs programs in Australia:

It is reported T-shirts and mugs have been made in Werbeloff's honour.

You may have heard US President Obama called Kanye West a 'jackass' for his antics, interrupting Taylor Swift victory speech, at the MTV Awards earlier this week. Now... YouTube has the visual of it for all of us to see.

President Lincoln would have got away with it...

I often tell me entrepreneur clients that a good web idea is a quicker and easier way to wealth than any other source - even winning the lottery. Let's take YouTube as a case in point.

YouTube turned 5 on Valentine's Day 2010. That's right... only 5!

The video upload and sharing website has 1 billion views of its videos EVERY SINGLE DAY, and it is only 5 years old!

An interesting list was released last week, ranking the 1000 most-visited websites on the internet (excluding Google and YouTube). Facebook topped it.

This is hardly surprising considering TIME's cover story on Facebook last week revealed that "1 in 4 people" using the internet not only have a Facebook account, but have visited it in the last 30 days.